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Press release: Escambia County and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office will hold a joint workshop session Monday, August 5, at 10 a.m. to continue negotiations for the transfer of the Jail and Central Booking operations. The workshop will be held at 221 Palafox Place in the fourth floor training room within the Escambia County Administration office. This meeting will have limited space and is open to the public.

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Yesterday, Chief Deputy Eric Haines made the request yesterday of Interim County Administrator George Touart and County Attorney Alison Perdue via email.

After today’s meeting and the discussions that occurred we would like all future negotiations regarding the transfer of the jail to be advertised and open to the public.

As a separate issue, the Sheriff would like to see a proposal in the form of a separate MOU as to how the future replacement server for our current backup server would work, regarding the server itself, the install, related hardware, space, or any other incurred expenses.

COO Tamara Fountain said the CBRE no longer has the contract to market the parcels at the Community Maritime Park. The contract expired in February.
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